Through mission trips, conferences and friendships with Arab women, God made a way for Rachel to work in the Arab World. She spent two years in language and culture training in North Africa, then joined a church planting team there. This international church empowered the few foreign believers to reach out to their coworkers and classmates in the international school. The team also met with local friends in homes to share the good news. Rachel and that team supported a grassroots, underground movement of believers so that it could remain as indigenous as possible. 

Then Rachel sensed God’s leading to a different part of the Arab World. She is meeting women at the health center and teaching an exercise class. Rachel is a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree. Rachel and her new team continue to pray for an effective business strategy. They want His strategy to reach the precious people in the Arab Gulf region. The team’s goal is to see God plant his church among the unreached there, and to serve these people via the team members various professions (nursing, engineer, athletic trainer, and so forth).

Rachel just spent nearly a year in the USA. She received additional training and is now considered Career status with her company. Upon arriving in site, she found that other people had started an early morning prayer group. Since 2023, she wanted more corporate prayer times, and God provided it without her needing to do anything except join! She is grateful for friends who helped clean her house, which had accumulated mini sand hills during the previous windy season.

Prayer requests:

For more women to come to the center, especially women who's hearts are already open. Fliers were recently posted around town. May the Lord draw the right women. John 6:44

Wisdom in following up with a neighbor who expressed interest in reading our Book! She's never read it before. Simply giving her a copy could bring her unwanted attention. Pray for wisdom with how to best share the Word with her. James 1:5

Brothers and sisters in jail for their faith in that country: for them to endure and for their release. Luke 22:31-34; Acts 12:5